EVERYTHING MUST BE DONE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS, FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE THICKNESS OF THE DEPOSITED COAT OF INK, AND ''OVERCURING'' SHOULD BE AVOIDED.

Question: The UV inks are expensive
Answer: FALSE

Printing with UV inks costs the same and actually is sometimes cheaper than it would be with the solvent based inks. If you think in ''short term profit'', it is true that the direct cost of 1 liter of UV is more expensive than 1 liter of a solvent based ink.

But you have to think about: UV can print 70m2/liter for an ink and 140m2/liter for a varnish, if you print thin coats.
- saving on the cleaning solvents,
- polyvalence of these inks (just one for different substrate)
- gaining of productivity, space, energy, etc.

Question: The outdoor posters printed in UV end up on the ground
Answer: FALSE

If it happens, it will be due to an ''over-curing'' or a mistake in the choice of the papers.

Question: The adhesion to certain substrates is not good
Answer: FALSE

Now the help of a catalyst developed by DUBUIT INKS, allows you to print on almost every substrates.

Question: In four-color process, it is difficult to print the third or fourth color
Answer: FALSE

If the basic rule is respected (thickness), there is absolutely no problem with printing not only four colors, but five or six. Furthermore, the use (on papers/cardboard s) of water based UV ink that will reduce
- by evaporation of the 50% of water
- by half the thickness of the polymerized ink, will minimize even more this very well known problem called the ''building up of dots''.


EXCTRACT of an article from ''SCEEN PRINTING INDIA-AUGUST-, Wrote by MR. MICHEL CAZA, which is considered A MASTER PRINTER OF FINE ARTS, AND ''FOUNDING FATHERS'' of FESPA, but more, A PARTNER WITH ENCRES DUBUIT SINCE MORE THAN 15 YEARS.